About this app

This app lets you take pictures using your phone and send them directly to your Telegram Messenger app.

Sample applications:

1. Make your phone as a CCTV. Fix it to a phone holder and point it to your house's main entrance. Every 5 minutes you get the picture in your Telegram Messenger app, which of course you are not at home at the moment.

2. Make your phone as a kids watcher. Fix it to a phone holder and place it somewhere in their room. Every 30 minutes you know what they are doing, like doing homework or just goofing around.

3. Monitor your pets activities.

4. Surveil your car.

5. Get to know the presence of your bus coming to your route.

6. You own a self-service laundry shop and you want to monitor how it goes. Install the phone at the corner of the shop just like a CCTV but make sure you put it in a cage.

7. You are doing research on endangered animals like the rhinos. Put the phone on their trails to catch some awesome pictures of them.

8. Many more. You name it. This app is totally free with no ads. Developed just for fun. Please use it responsibly. Thanks!

Instruction:

1. Open your Telegram Messenger app.
2. Search for 'myTelecam_bot'.
'Telecam_bot' will be found.
3. Select the bot. Click 'START' or send '/start' command.
4. Bot will respond by replying a Chat ID. Copy Chat ID given by the bot.
5. Enter the Chat ID into the required field in this app (accessible by tapping anywhere on the screen).
6. Don't forget to set the interval value of each of picture takings (in seconds, minimum is 15).
7. Tap 'Save' and the setting will immediately applied.
8. Click 'START' button. The timer will be started and once it reaches '0' a picture will be taken and saved into your phone's Telecam folder (automatically created). If your Telegram Chat ID is correct and internet connection is available, you should receive the pictures sent to your Telegram Messenger app."

Bluetooth function:

1. Get "BT Terminal" app by Nudge Me from Google Play. Install it to another phone (phone B). Phone A is where the Telecam app is installed.
2. Pair Bluetooth between phone A and phone B through phone's Bluetooth Setting (required one time only).
3. Launch the BT Terminal app.
4. Select 'Connect' menu, then select the phone A's Bluetooth name from the popup list.
5. When the connection is successful, you will get a command list sent by phone A indicating that everything is OK.

Key in the following text (commands) on the phone B, then click SEND button.
a) capture - Take picture, save into Telecam folder then send it to Telegram.
b) flash - Switch flash mode on the phone.
c) front - Switch to front view camera.
d) main - Switch to main (rear view camera).
e) size - Switch the picture size (would be eventually forced to 640x480 when taking pictures).
f) delete - Clear all files that are saved in the Telecam folder.

New features

1. Manual snap button added
2. Bluetooth function added
3. Timer can now be activated through Bluetooth command
4. Other minor changes

App Permissions

Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows applications to connect to paired bluetooth devices.
Allows applications to discover and pair bluetooth devices.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Required to be able to access the camera device.
Allows access to the vibrator.
Allows an application to read from external storage.